Usually means: Pirate punishment, forced off ship.
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  1. walk the plank: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. walk the plank: Merriam-Webster
  3. walk the plank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. walk the plank: Collins English Dictionary
  5. walk the plank: Wiktionary
  6. walk the plank: Dictionary.com
  7. Walk the Plank (Zebrahead album), Walk the Plank (disambiguation), Walk the Plank (game show), Walk the Plank (theatre company), Walk the plank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Walk the Plank: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. walk the plank: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Walk the plank: Phrase Finder

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  1. walk the plank: Idioms

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  1. Walk the Plank: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (walk the plank)

verb:  (historical, also figurative) On an early naval vessel or pirate ship: to be forced to walk off the end of a gangplank (a plank of wood extending outwards from the side of the vessel) and plunge into the ocean and drown, used as a method of killing.
verb:  (idiomatic) To be forced to resign from a position in an organization.

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